Full Review

The Microsoft zune media player unexpectedly jumped into the portable Mp3 player market and is now gaining some loyalists. This is because the Zune has a bigger 3.2 inch display and a touch-senstive pad with two buttons button for navigation. It isn’t the thinnest device with a 0.5 inch thickness, but it is still cool to carry around with and comes with a wide range of trendy colors.

Concerning the battery life, it isn’t surprising and mostly lasts after 10 or 11 hours of playback. Fortunately , you can charge the Zune media player by USB if you are near a PC or have a laptop with you. To extend the life of the battery by a little bit, you can change the brightness levels.

Music management is pretty good because of the click-wheel that provides quick access to the music you like . The Zune media player also organizes your songs based on the tags letting it pretty simple even if you load gigabytes worth of songs.

The Zune media player comes with a few effective personalization alternatives both outside and inside the device.

Unlike most mp3 players, the Zune has a WiFi option that allows wireless transfer from computers or between Zunes to share songs. The Zune software also comes out a bit buggy and some upgrades pose some problems among some users as well. Overall the Zune media player is a great device that can store a lot and easily play the songs you are looking for.

Product Summary

The Good

The Zune media player has excellent sound quality, good personalization options, WiFi support, and easy song management.

The Bad

The WiFi support in the Zune media player is pretty slow and limited with no browsing facilities. The battery life isn’t the best around and the software can be a difficult to employ mainly to set things up.

Bottom Line

Those having huge mp3 collections should get this player since it has decent sound and you’ll find it rather simple searching for the right song you want. Just keep an eye on the battery life and have some patience with the supplied software.

There is no doubt that a major shift has been occuring in the business world over the last little while. In light of the severe economic times, more and more people are stepping out of their comfort zone and starting their own home-based business. This has, indeed, created a new age….the age of the new entrepreneur.

The question that then begs to be asked, is whether this is a wise decision. If you know any entrepreneurs yourself, then you will agree, that for the most part, they have very big ideas but their budgets don’t quite match. The result of this is that many of these businesses have been very limited in their ability to compete with their larger competitors when it comes to marketing.

That being the case, the new entrepreneur, with little funds to spend on marketing, has to be creative. Enter Web 2.0. Now small businesses can take full advantage of this free avenue of getting their name and brand out there for next to nothing. Web 2.0 comprises of the social networking media. This includes YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo and literally hundreds more websites that are all free.

These are not the only free avenues to get your message out there for the internet world to see. A great way is to have your own blog….in fact, I would say that this is essential. I recommend Wordpress.org. This way you will host the blog yourself and have complete control over it and it’s content. Another very effective way to generate free traffic is with articles. This article you are reading right now is an example of that.

Sometimes fear or plain ignorance holds a person back. It is important to work on your mindset and get clear as to why you want to have your own business. If you do not have a strong enough “why”, then when the going gets tough, and it undoubtedly will, you will probably not hang in there. As far as ignorance is concerned, this is one of the easiest obstacles to overcome. There is so much free information out there just for the taking. You will have to do a little research on the Internet but you will find all sorts of help waiting for you there.

I also highly recommend you get your hands of some well known books. You will need both instructional and motivational books. I have bookcases full of them and to me they are priceless. Just a little tip here…I have found many of my most treasured books at the local thrift stores. They usually have a book section and quite often it is even categorized for you. Check out the self-help section. I have picked up some of my favorite books for just $1.00 to $3.00.

Even though you can become your own boss with very little financial investment, there is still going to be an investment….not of money….but of your time, hard work, perseverance and patience. Yes, this is indeed the age of the new entrepreneur. The experts have gone on record as saying that more millionaires will be created in the next ten years, than at any other time in history. Don’t let this golden opportunity pass you by. Believe it or not, right now at least one in eight households in the States has their own home-based business.

There is no doubt in my mind that there has never been a better time than right now to become an entrepreneur.

Guaranteed to make your money back with The Bloggers Bible

As it has been said the course can teach you how to make money from blogging and the course is designed to make you earn back the course fee and more every month. Bloggers Bible estimates that within three months of finishing the course you will be able to recover the cost of the course and more.Sounds not too bad right?

Bloggers Bible Course Content

The overall course consists of 49 individual lessons which is then broke into 12 modules, which is as follows:

Module 1(5 Lessons) – Introduction

In the first 5 lessons it will explain how you select your topic and the direction of your future blogging and how to set out your goals. With in this you get a quick over view of SEO which will be explained in future lessons.

Module 2 ( 6 Lessons) -Technical Setup

This normally is the tough part, so here will be explained how to do the basics from hosting of your blog, RSS feeds, stats tracking and a lot of other technical stuff. Finally launch your blog.

Module 3 (3 lessons) – Basic Content

Content will be the whole structure of your blog and quality is a must. Learn how to do the essential content writing and create great content for your blog.

Module 4 (5 lessons)- Monetization of Blog

The aim of this course is to start you off on your money making journey as soon as possible, here you will learn the basic and easy strategies such as contextual advertising and affiliate marketing. These can be started from the beginning of your blog, so when the traffic starts coming in so can the money.

Module 5 – Traffic (5 Lessons)

To make money you will need traffic it comes down to that, learn the methods to create traffic to your blog and how to monitor and understand what results you have and from there learn to tweak them a little to create more traffic.

Module 6 (3 lessons) – Basic Link Building Exercise

Another source of good traffic is from search engine traffic, but this can take time as you will require to be ranked high for your keywords. Links are required to allow this, so it will be taught how you can build on your link building methods.

Module 7 – Social Media (6 lessons)

There are hundred if not thousands of sites out there, so will be unable to cover all, so in this course you will be taught how to get traffic form a few of them which could drive thousands of visitors there.

Module 8 (2 lessons) – Getting Readership

To be able to make your blog profitable you need to sell things to people, this will take time and require you nurture and take care of them along their journey.

Module 9 (1 lesson) – Maintenance

Like going to a mechanic, we will teach you how to change your oil on your blog, etc.

Module 10 (4 lessons) – Advanced Content

You will be taught how to stand out from the crowd and move your blog to the ultimate level.

Module 11 (6 lessons) – Advanced Monetization

In module 4, you have been taught the basic techniques of monetization but they will only go so far as you are based on a per visitor basis. Learn the specific methods of the next level which include product creation, freebie marketing, membership sites and more.

Module 12 – Advanced Link Building (3 lessons)

Every blog post is a potential way to increase our search engine ranking for this you need rank higher than your competitors is this is why link building is so important. In the final module you will be taught the 3 key methods to build quality links, if you willing to make the effort.

Are you in the online business? Do you blog to earn money? If yes, I am sure you have many sites and blogs to maintain. Blogs especially are hard to maintain when you have too many of them and so to make things easier to manage, there are some blogging software that will be able to help you to manage all your blogs in one place.

There are so many blogging platforms such as Blogger and Wordpress and I am sure you must have tried them to know which is better for your blogs. Of course the world knows that Wordpress is suitable for serious blogging career and if you want to make more money, you will have to set up as many blogs as you can manage. Wordpress allows you to install plugins which will make blogging easier although Blogger is easier to set up.

However, how do you find the right blogging software that will be able to help you maintain your blogs while at the same time do the marketing for you as well using the marketing features available?

Introducing Firepow, a blogging software that will solve all your problems. Yes, I mean all your problems in maintaining your blogs. You might have a few blogs and even hundreds of blogs and by keeping them under one roof, you will be able to monitor them easily.

Instead of having to sign in to hundreds of accounts, you can manage all your blogs with just one account at Firepow. It is fast and easy to set up. Thanks to Andrew Hansen, the man behind this great tool, we can all build a career in blogging the easy way.

When you have a blog, you want to have the search engine spider to crawl your blog and index your contents. At the same time, you would want to have more backlinks as well so you can climb higher in the Page Rank. When you have so many blogs you can never concentrate fully on each and every one of the blogs so Firepow helps to make it easier for you by using the h1 and h2 tag data for every post.

At the same time, you can use Firepow to submit to RSS automatically. If you want to promote your blogs, there is a feature using Yahoo Answers as the tool to get more backlinks to your blogs. Answer the questions and you will automatically leave a link there.

You get a built-in theme generator, plugins to install to your blogs, video integration in your posts and social bookmarking tools. In short, Firepow is the blogging software you need in order to make money from your blogs the easier way.

Shaun Taylor’s Blogging in Action package covers the intricacies of blogging in more detail than any of the other programs I have reviewed on my website. It starts with blogging basics, and then moves on to Wordpress installation, which is detailed step-by-step in print and then on video. Blog setup and configuration is then covered.

The last half of the book covers writing content, and other chapters like how to write good posts, how to blog, and what kind of posts to write. The information here is incredible because it is something that is never mention in the other courses.

The last section of the book, which happens to take up over 60% of the book, goes through the detailed steps in monetizing your blog, generating traffic to your blog, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and other more advanced topics.

There is a lot of information to digest, so you have to take it easy when you first start out. Pace yourself so you wont burnt out with information overload. Shaun has actually written the book where you can skip any information that is not actionable.

Shaun Taylor is a well-respected blogger who been interviewed alongside other bloggers like Yaro Starak and Steve Pavilina.

The bonuses in this package are actually helpful, consisting of a simple keyword tool (this is the same keyword tool as the one in Atomic Blogging, just rebranded), security software, backup software, and a large number of videos. So whether you learn by reading or seeing, you should be able to get a lot out of this comprehensive package that sells for a very modest price.

THE Blogging in Action Package Contains: – 258-page Blogging in Action e-book – 4 Companion Videos – Keyword Sheriff research tool – WordPress Secure Pro – 15 QuickStart Videos – 3 bonus Videos on additional blogging topics – 10 Advanced WordPress Videos – 10 Internet and Blogging basics Videos – Complete Backup Pro script, guide, and Video – Preparing Your Blog for Traffic report – Million Dollar Copywriting Secrets e-book – Dominate the Web 2.0 Market e-book – Making Sense of Google AdSense e-book – Web 2.0 Sites Exposed e-book – Lifetime product updates – Live customer support

PROBLEMS: The book can be overwhelming at times because there is so much good information, take your time when reading it — I have always come back to his book because all the information from the other blogging courses were lacking. Nitpicking time: You cannot download any of the 40+ Videos and I didnt like the fact that Shaun used 4 of his testimonials on his sales page twice!

SALES Promise Met? — Yes: The package provides very clear and specific guidelines on the practice of blogging.

EASE of Use: — Very Good: Blog installation requires some minimal technical skills. Expert WordPress has the easiest setup system.

CUSTOMER Support: — Excellent: Quick e-mail response with useful answers.

VALUE for Money: — $57: Excellent — This should be the foundation of any blogging course.

OVERALL Rating: — Very, Very Good: Some blogging newbies might find the package a bit overwhelming, but it’s written by a true blogging authority, so the content is sure to be as accurate as possible.

Blogging for Riches by Greg Meares and Jerry Franklin has undergone many changes since its introduction in 2007. In its current form, the primary offering consists of a video series that focuses on niche blogging.

REMEMBER: It is important that you understand that the programs we have reviewed on our site are broken down into two categories: there is the short-term make money quickly niche blogging methods and the long-term make money continuously for a long time methods. Blogging for Riches falls into the first category.

We think the best part of this program is the finding and targeting a niche videos. The videos starts with researching and identifying niche blogs, followed by steps you need to take in order to implement them successfully.

There are 70+ videos to watch that will teach you the basics, such as installing a blog, configuring a blog, etc. Then it moves on to creating content, either by doing it yourself, which is free, or paying for it such as outsourcing or Private Label Rights. The information here is not any different compared to the other blogging packages I have reviewed.

In the content creation section, Greg and Jerry recommended to use an online mailbox to collect content. What they suggest is that you, the blogger sign up for as many e-mail subscription as possible and then use these e-mails that you receive to post as content on your blog site.

Sure, this method is a way to generate content for your blog, and it is free, but the content is filled with someone elses links and recommendations. This method will, I believe, get you into trouble.

Once these tasks are out of the way, other video modules are introduced, covering the expected subjects of traffic generation, Web 2.0, and monetization, with a strong focus on networking and Web 2.0.

Blogging for Riches Contains: 70+ short videos (no e-book), Extreme Plugin Success, SEO Traffic Themes, The Social Bookmarking Quick Start Guide, and the Traffic Generation Guide.

Sales Promises Met? — Yes: Blogging for Riches is a very good learning product.

Ease of Use: — Good: When blogging you will always need to learn some technical skills to actually master it, so like most of the blogging courses I have reviewed you will run into some technical problems, but the good thing is that you can see what is been done right in front of your screen.

Customer Support: — Excellent: Customers report getting very responsive support from Greg and Jerry.

Value for Money: — $97: Not Good — At an entry price of $97, there is not enough new or innovative content to justify the price tag. $144 for membership plus installation.

Overall Rating: — Fair/Average: Blogging for Riches is designed to help you research, select, launch, and market a niche blog that you can monetize with affiliate programs. This video-based program is good, but very pricey for the information you receive.

Here are 10 powerful blogging tips you must take into your action and marketing plan seriously. Follow them and you’ll be on your way to building a highly successful and profitable blog online and earn money on the internet.

Step 1 – Choose a Unique Niche or Topic

Think of a topic or niche you are interested in. Itll be very easy for you to write regularly and authoritatively and be a go-to industry expert.

Step 2 – Create Your Blog

Different blogging platforms offer different levels of service. Some like Blogger.com and WordPress.com offer both the platform, domain name and hosting for free. Others like Wordpress.org (note this is different to WordPress.com) offer the platform for free but you then need to find and pay for your own hosting and domain name. Others still, like MovableType charge for a license for the platform (depending how many blogs you have and whether they will have a commercial, personal, educational or not-for-profit use – they do also have a free version) and then you need to arrange and pay for your own domain name and hosting.

Use the keywords you picked in Step and include them in the content of your blog. Avoid keyword stuffing because it is considered to be an unethical search engine optimization.

Step 3 – Go Google

Sign up for Google Adsense account and paste the generated javascript code into your blog html. Every time the page is accessed, the code will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. When someone click on the ad which resides on your blog, you get paid. However, Google doesn’t disclose the exact revenue share or percentage that webmasters will earn.

Enabled Google Analytics on your blog by inserting a tracking code in the template of your blog. This way, Google’s indexing bots can see every page of your site and tell you all kinds of information about the traffic you’re receiving on those pages.

You may also want to submit your URL to Google’s index.

Step 4 – Find Something to Sell

You might try finding an affiliate program (ClickBank and Commission Junction) to join to maximize your income and truly learn how to make money with blogs.

Whatever program you join will give you help inserting the code you will need to insert into your blog, but be sure you do this correctly or you WILL NOT earn money from your visitors. If you do not know how to edit HTML, W3Schools HTML tutorial is a great place to start.

Step 5 – Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking sites like OnlyWire and SocialMarker are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.

I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.

Step 6 – Write an Article

I would suggest you to write an article or a review if our blog is about a specific product. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.

Submit your article to any of the 100’s which are out there. I personally use a few of the Top Article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use a nifty piece of software called Article Submitter which will submit your articles to over 600 article directories, which saves you lots of time and leaves you to focus on writing your blogs.

Blogging offers online marketers the best of opportunities to help feed information to those who need it. As well, growing popularity on the web is not an overnight experience, but through time, dedication, and persistence you will be rewarded with all the royalties of blogging.

So easy a baby could do it, and other product that promises thousands by simply copy and pasting, Is CopyNProfit another Scam?

The concept is simple just plug in to your existing campaigns, copy and paste all the profitable keywords, rinse and repeat. Also included in this package are back up tutorials on how affiliate marketing works all neatly packaged in Videos.

Each video gives you a breakdown of how to maximize your online profits, one video cover exactly how to use this system, the others give a breakdown on how to set up blogs, have the edge over your competition with affiliate marketing, websites and other useful techniques to optimize your campaigns.

Choose a niche and campaign, ad keywords based on their existing performance, Copy and paste the keywords to you PPC account, that’s it few minutes and all finished.

Generate other sources of free Traffic generation, using blogs, articles, hubpages and squidoos. These methods are explained in the videos.

Each day monitor campaigns, keep the profitable campaigns and disregard the ones that are not making money.

The CopyNProfit System only uses products supplied by Click Bank. Ensuring you do not get cheated from your commissions, both vendors and affiliates receive a unique tracking code.

With over 35 niche campaigns to choose from, both competitive and not so competitive markets. You are shown how to optimize each campaign to receive maximum benefit.

Over, CopyNProfit is not a scam, there is the potential to make money with this system, although I wonder if a baby could do it.

Search engine submission is very important to all webmasters. This is the procedure in which an individual takes the URL of the website that they would like to tell to the people and submits it to one of the many search engines available on the internet nowadays.

There are several different search engines in which one can engage in the Search Engine Submission of their website. These include Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Lycos, Windows Live Search, and more!

If you are a webmaster, you can submit your website in a couple of different ways. The most popular types of search engine submission is to do one page at a time, then the website as a whole.

Search engine submission often goes hand in hand with search engine optimization. This is the process in which particular variables must be concluded so that the website receives maximum exposure on the internet.

Many will use keywords in their content, and then the search engine picks up on the website based on type and placement. If you are interested in search engine submission, there are many websites that will assist you with the process online.

However, you could do the task on your own too, by going to the “submit site” page on the engine that you would like to engage in search engine submission with.

Alvin Phangs Atomic Blogging has some good information for people who are just learning about blogging. The first half of the book covers things such as registering a domain, installing a blog and configuring it, etc.

The second half of the book, Alvin walks the reader through some basics on tips on blogging, search engine optimization, getting traffic to your blog, writing content, and learn how to make money from your blog. While much of the information is useful, there are many missing pieces in the book where many major sections were too incomplete to have any type of value for the reader.

For instance, Alvin wrote a very small section in his book about search engine optimization (SEO), he not only wrote on a just a few ways to do On-Page SEO, but he somehow completely forgot to include for the Newbies, the most practical and effective Search Engine Optimization that they should all know when creating a blog.

The “bonus” chapters are similar. While there are some useful nuggets of information, they are incomplete in nature.

A lot of the bonuses that are included in this package add little to no value. For instance, in order for you to use the simple Barking Video series bonus, you first must sign up with another internet marketers e-mail list, something I completely disagree with.

A problem that many readers will notice is that Alvin is not a native English speaker. Which means he didnt grow up learning English. While that is somewhat inspirational for people interested in creating an online business, the problem is that it’s often difficult to understand what Alvin is trying to say in his explanations.

The value of Atomic Blogging has gone done considerably since Alvin started giving it away as a FREE bonus with other purchased products in the internet. Although he has the rights to do whatever he pleases with his products, this decision has certainly devalued the past purchases from his past customers ” an approach that is not good for the long-run.

Although the content of the book lacks the value that is described on the sales page, Alvin is a nice, helpful guy.

The Atomic Blogging Package Contains: 130-page Atomic Blogging e-book, Yaro Starak MP3 audio interview, AdSense Revenue Exposed e-book, Blogger’s Guide to Profits e-book, Barking Video series, eWriter Pro, Atomic Blogging theme, Alvin Phang’s keyword research tool, E-mail support

Meets Stated Objectives? — Not Really: This is a useful package for a complete blogging newcomer, but there are far too many subjects that aren’t covered fully enough to meet the stated objectives.

Ease of Use: — Good: There were a lot of clear, step-by-step instructions on how to create a functional blog, but due to English being a second language to Alvin, it was frustrating to completely understand what he was trying to say.

Customer Support: — Very Good: Quick and timely response, he gives very good support to any questions you have.

Value for Money: — $47: Average “His bonuses are completely worthless.

Overall Rating: — Fair: Since Atomic Blogging can get you started in creating a blog, I feel that it does not contain enough information to actually make it a profitable endeavor. I suggest you use this as a supplement instead of a main blogging course to help you in making any type of income in the internet.